sandy. >> hopefully we can supply them with enough food, hot food, you know, to get them through, you know, before the storm starts. >> reporter: this storm comes 35 years after the historic blizzard of 1978. two feet of snow and 70-pl 70-plus-mile-an-hour winds paralyzed the northeast. what you're looking at are 50-foot tall cliffs of salt. it's really impressive out here. and they expect another 60,000 tons to be delivered tomorrow morning, before the storm. what i expect is to be using these tomorrow at this time, because -- they're ski goggles, i'll need them, with all the wind and snow. >> a blizzard that fierce. thank you, ginger. and now, sam champion is here, so, sam, what about the conditions, if you're going to need goggles for this blizzard? >> reporter: absolutely. it is blizzard. the worst word we can pull out. brutal, blinding snow. we have warnings out for seven states here. basically stretches from new york all the way through boston and into portland. if you look at all the states, 43 million people in the path of that storm. and with this, we're talking about, well,